Project Everyone is a United Kingdom-based left-of-center organization that supports the controversial United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) program, with a focus on youth activism. ¹

Project Everyone supports the critical race theory-influenced concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (JEDI) and focuses its activism on climate, poverty, and what it considers to be inequality and injustice. ¹

Its lead partners include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Google Foundation, NetApp, and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF). ² In 2023, the organization received $750,000 from OSF ³ and $250,000 from the left-of-center Rockefeller Foundation. ⁴

History and Leadership

Project Everyone was co-founded in 2015 by Richard Curtis, Kate Harvey, and Gail Galle. ^{5 6 7 8}

As of October 2024, Piers Bradford is Project Everyone’s managing director. Prior to joining Project Everyone, he was a part of the state-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio 1 leadership team. ⁵

Project Everyone’s headquarters is based in London, England. ⁴

Activities and Funding

Project Everyone is a United Kingdom-based left-of-center organization that supports the controversial United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on youth activism. Project Everyone makes campaign materials, produces documentaries, and builds conference and exposition installations to support the 17 SDGs. Its team of supporters works across civil society, the private sector, national governments, and United Nations agencies. ¹

Project Everyone supports the critical race theory-influenced concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (JEDI) and has its own JEDI Working Group to address these topics. The organization’s advocacy campaigns are focused on what it considers to be strategies to address a changing climate, poverty, and inequality and injustice. ¹

Project Everyone’s activism includes the creation of campaigns, events, content, and programs in support of the SDGs with partners from across civil society; the private sector; academia; and the philanthropic sector to create what it considers to be a far-left green, just, and equal world by 2030. ⁹

The organization’s lead partners are the left-of-center Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Google Foundation, NetApp, and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. Its partners include PWC, Salesforce, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Chinese-controlled social media application TikTok, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and Unilever. Project Everyone’s supporters include Action for Sustainable Development, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Conservation International, the Convention on Biological Diversity, Freuds, Global Citizen, One, Pangaia, Sharing Strategies, the Biodiversity Plan, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Time Magazine, and Tin Drum. ²

Project Everyone is involved with various United Nations programs, including the controversial United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Project Everyone has produced goals for the SDGs Global Goals program, ¹⁰ ran the SDGs pavilion at the 2023 United Nations General Assembly in New York City, and operated the SDG Goals Week at Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It also has partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for its Goalkeepers Program. ¹¹

Funding

Project Everyone receives funding from grants from its partners. In 2023, the organization received $750,000 from the Open Society Foundations (OSF) ³ and $250,000 from the left-of-center Rockefeller Foundation. ⁴

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